Pocket cigar-shield.



PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

H. F. DRAKE.

POCKET CIGAR SHIELD.

APPLIGATION PI LBD AUG. 6, 1902.

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U ITE STATES ATENT OFFICE.

IIARVEY F. DRAKE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

POCKET CIGAR-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 717,556, dated January6, 1903. Application filed August 6,1902. Serial No. 118,606. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY F. DRAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe, in the State of NewYork, have invented an Improved Pocket Cigar-Shield, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

My invention relates to an improved pocket cigar-shield designed moreparticularly for the protection of cigars while carried in thevest-pocket, but capable of being used for many other purposes and indifferent locations.

My invention is fully described and illustrated in the followingspecificatiouand the accompanying drawings, the novel features thereofbeing specified in the claim annexed to the said specification.

In the accompanying drawings, representing my improved pocketcigar-shield, Figure l is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a side View. Fig. 3 isa top view.

My improved cigar-shield consists, essentially, of the fiat orslightly-curved body A, having the bent sides or flanges B B and thebottom or base 0, the structure being without a back and adapted toreceive and protect a number of cigars within it, as indicated by thedotted lines.

The shield is made of any suitable material, such as fiber or celluloid,although I have found sheet-aluminium very suitable for the purpose.

The manner of inserting the shield in the pocket is shown in Fig. 3, thecloth being indicated by dotted lines. The shield may, however, be usedwith the body next the person of the wearer.

. The cigars are confined laterally by the side flanges B B andsupported at their lower ends by the base 0, and they are thusefiectively protected while in the shield from accidental breakage,which so frequently happens to cigars carried loosely.

My improved pocket cigar-shield issimple, light, and cheap and entirelyprevents injury to cigars carried in it.

I claim' The herein-described pocket cigar-shield formed of a singlepiece comprising the body open at the top and entirely open on one sideand having" the bent flanges along two of its opposite edges, and thebent base at its lower edge substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

HARVEY F. DRAKE.

Witnesses: GEO. B. SELDEN, H. R. SELDEN.

